Animals

A small cluster of animal pictures, including horse galloping!

Strange orange-legged insect

24 Jun 2010

What is this insect? It was crawling around on the lawn, climbing over blades of grass.

Bumble Bee

24 Jun 2010

Here is a bumble bee feasting on a clover flower.

Baby Spiders

24 Jun 2010

These little beauties all hatched out on a water butt tap, in the warm June sunshine. Aren't they cute?

Honey Bees Mating

09 Jun 2010

These honey bees were at it for several minutes, buzzing loudly whilst mating on top of a water butt in our front garden.

Pet Mice

04 May 2010

Here are some pet mice belonging to our eight-year-old, Isabel.

I Like Turtles

21 May 2008

This is at the Waterfront Park, downtown Portland. This clip was taken by 8 News. The boy, when asked a straightforward question, gave the ...

White Grub in Bacton Woods, Norfolk

03 May 2008

This is a largish white grub we saw on a rest break whilst cycling through Bacton Woods. It was around an inch and a half long.

Jerboa

17 Apr 2008

A researcher at the Zoological Society of London has captured footage of the exceedingly shy and endangered Jerboa, a tiny nocturnal mammal found ...

Mouse Lemur

03 Oct 2007

This is the world's smallest primate, with one able to fit in the palm of your hand. They hibernate in trees during the dry season, and when ...

Pretty Slug

22 Sep 2007

We don't usually photograph slugs, but this one was such a pretty specimen!

Baby Blackbird has Plummeted

02 Jun 2006

The nest has fallen out and two of the three baby blackbirds have died; here's the survivor a few days later, still being fed like crazy by his ...

Tadpoles with Legs

21 May 2006

The tadpoles in the fishtank are growing fast, and most have developed back legs. They appeared to be trying to eat each other, which we took ...

Baby Blackbirds

21 May 2006

This nest is right outside our back door, overlooking the sandpit. Remarkably, the children don't know about it. Mother bird holds her nerve ...

A Baby Robin

29 Mar 2006

One hatched in the conservatory.

Swarm!!

17 Nov 2005

We had a wasps' nest somewhere in the house wall over the Summer. Filling the entry points certainly made them cross.